Nicolas /
"Burdened with grief, confusion, and anger, Pascal Girard explores the childhood passing of his five-year-old brother. Girard delves into the emotional repercussions of this life-changing trauma, from his memories as a nine-year-old struggling to understand up until the present day, twenty-five...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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[Montréal, Quebećbec] :
Drawn & Quarterly,
2016
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Summary: | "Burdened with grief, confusion, and anger, Pascal Girard explores the childhood passing of his five-year-old brother. Girard delves into the emotional repercussions of this life-changing trauma, from his memories as a nine-year-old struggling to understand up until the present day, twenty-five years after the shattering loss. At the heart of Nicolas lies the question shared by most undergoing bereavement: Why? This confusion multiplies for a young boy with few answers to his questions, lacking even a basic explanation of the cause of his brother's departure. As sorrow and guilt are muffled by time and the flurry of even the most typical childhood and adolescence, this is a story of grief not grieved, and a glimpse into the ongoing process of reckoning. Pascal struggles to reconcile the magnitude of this tragedy with the minutiae of his daily experience of loss. Nicolas is a delicate, minimalist portrait of the many faces of mourning, identified with surprising humor and pathos by an artist who knows them intimately"-- |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Nicolas. "First edition: December 2008. Revised edition: September 2016"--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 106 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781770462625 1770462627 |
| Language: | Translated from the French. |
